ertian

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by ertian 2y ago
> it enables a style of game that has been done to death by amateurs and indies What style of game is that? I guess RPG? I think that's just because it was a convenient way to demo the concept. The two interesting things about this,
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by ertian 2y ago
This seems like the wrong site for you, then? Hacker news generally has stories about interesting new ideas. It's not really the place to discuss incremental improvements to C++ and Unity. I can think of a couple games that sprang from
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by ertian 2y ago
Mandatory "simple is not the same as easy": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4 Clojure vectors are just lists, basically. "Atoms" are mutable references to immutable datastructures (Clojure is i
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by ertian 2y ago
They're called atoms because operations on them are atomic, I think.
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by ertian 2y ago
The claim that work is inherently coercive is crazy to me. In order to live, we need food, clothing, shelter, comforts. Those take labor to produce. We've abstracted labor using money, allowing for specialization, so you can perform so
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by ertian 2y ago
On top of that, when you consider how often Alexa plays the wrong song, it's pretty hard to trust it with purchases. The equivalent of asking for a pop song and getting heavy metal would be trying to order some pens and ending up with
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by ertian 2y ago
Possibly A-Train? The assets would change for special occasions in that.
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by ertian 2y ago
Yeah, I think the only real problem with this is that it was posted under the auspices of Mozilla's official foundation. If it was a personal blog post, it'd be just fine.
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by ertian 2y ago
They probably can't, for the same reason it's not going to stay open: it wasn't specified in the will what to do with the LCM, and it does specifically say that the default is to liquidate.
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by ertian 2y ago
Yeah, the cynic in me wonders if this is to drive more traffic to page-1 links (which, incidentally, are often mostly 'sponsored' links). Maybe too many people had learned that hitting pgdn a few times yielded better search result
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by ertian 2y ago
For real, if you applied the same level of scrutiny and the same kind of aggressive rhetoric to universities, the result would be a devastating critique. I think the same is true of other 'disruptive' companies that people love to
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by ertian 2y ago
Well, because it was thoroughly debunked decades ago. I remember reading this 'fact' in books as a kid in the 80s.
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by ertian 2y ago
But you might expect to see many depictions of it, since it would be high-prestige. The people painting vases weren't doing live battlefield reporting, there's no reason to expect their depictions to be accurate to real battles.
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by ertian 2y ago
I mean it is largely ceremonial... (along with all those F-250s in the middle of a crowded city)
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by ertian 2y ago
Whew! Dodged a bullet there...
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by ertian 2y ago
During orientation week at University of Alberta, way back in the late 90s, there was a huge campus-wide game of capture the flag. All the buildings were fair game, which made it a great way to both meet people (while hiding in a nook or ru
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by ertian 2y ago
Also, evolutionary pressure tends to make viruses less deadly. Variants that don't kill or incapacitate the host can spread faster, since the carriers are up and moving around. They'll inoculate the population against more deadly
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by ertian 2y ago
This is true, but those games were noted at the time for being crude and offensive. There was actually quite a bit of dislike for all of the above, and they were seen at the time as the exception rather that the norm. I can think of the o
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by ertian 2y ago
It's easier to hire linux kernel devs, there's more documentation, tooling & examples, device drivers & filesystems are more widely available, etc. Every other OS has to play catch-up. They either need a killer app or lots
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by ertian 3y ago
Same as it ever was, I think. It's just that when you look back in retrospect, you spend all the time talking about the paths that turned out to be successful. The history of science is littered with now-forgotten theories that, in the
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by ertian 3y ago
I think there are many layers between the people who read Brian Greene's books and watched the reproducibility crisis unfold, and the public that has "lost faith in science". When I hear the latter, I think of vaccine skeptic
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by ertian 3y ago
Well, but that's due to a lot of problems specific to the media landscape. Netflix started as an afterthought, the big media companies viewed it as a sideshow or as a stopgap measure while they made other plans, so there was a honeymoo
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by ertian 3y ago
That's why it has to be lightweight. The thing that would drive prices down and keep ads at bay is competition. Since setting up a new streaming service is difficult-bordering-on-impossible, the players are protected from competition a
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by ertian 3y ago
Based on my wife's experience with Douyin (the original product in China), I get the impression that they're trying to roll out products or features that have been wildly successful in China. The store, for example, seems to be ve
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by ertian 3y ago
I love the irony of reading: "The app is even testing a new feature that uses AI to identify products in the background of regular content and turn every single video into an ad", followed immediately by a dozen pages of ads targe
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by ertian 3y ago
This is kind of an interesting twist on a Turing test. If you can't tell by examining the work whether it was created by a human or an AI, then how can we say that a human is creative an an AI is not?
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by ertian 3y ago
There were a few days back in the 90s where all the tech sites would run a campaign where everybody was supposed to send emails full of red flag words: "bomb" and "assassinate" and "terrorism" and what have you
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by ertian 3y ago
There were instances of deliberate disease warfare in America, but that was already centuries after something like 80% of the population of the Americas was killed by diseases that early European explorers didn't even know they were s
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by ertian 3y ago
Well...and even during the most competitive and severe colonialist/imperialist periods on earth, extermination was very much the exception and not the norm.
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by ertian 3y ago
Yeah, and the nature of the Dark Forest galaxy would mean that no civilization could get anywhere close to utilizing a significant share of total resources--or even a significant share of the total resources in their backyard --because doi

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